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If for some reason you or your company is still using VSS it’s time to move forward! Team Foundation server supports VSS Migration, until today there were a command line tool allowing you to migrate VSS repository to TFS Source Control – this tool is called – VSSConverter. VSSConverter command line tool requires configuration file that need manual authoring, but no More! Microsoft has announce a new wizard based UI tool for upgrading VSS repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012/2010. Open the...
Tweet Read the full article from Brian’s Harry Download –> Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools Power Tools Come to Eclipse We are completely committed to ensuring that developers outside of Visual Studio have great access to TFS and that includes bringing Power Tools to these developers when appropriate. Today we made a new Power Tool download available as an Eclipse update site. 64-bit MSSCCI Support We also made the one of our most significant updates to the MSSCCI provider for TFS...
Tweet Yesterday a got a a request from a customer how want to work with TFS Source Control from RoboHelp: Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 software is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. This is possible using the MSSCCI provider and some registry changes: Download and Install – MSSCCI - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn...
CodeProject Some news for Visual Studio 2010, I’ll start from several updates you should to apply on you TFS and Visual Studio. KB - TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 – KB2536929 This is the first Update from Microsoft since SP1, and the new concept from Microsoft is to release hot fixes for critical bugs, every once in a while when the development team feels they have critical mass of fixes they will publish new Update includes all hot fixes. – So make sure your Visual Studio and TFS are up to date...
Since 2009 I ‘m writing about TFS API and several people asked to get an index page with all parts related to TFS API, so here is it: Basic TFS API Part 1: Domain Picker TFS API Part 2: Domain Picker Using Registered Servers (Cache) TFS API Part 3: Get Project List Using ICommonStructureService TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) TFS API Part 7: Use IEventService To Get User Event Subscriptions TFS API Part 8: Subscribe/Unsubscribe Events Using IEventService TFS API Part...
Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE I started to build a Build Definition in TFS 2010 (WF) for one of my customers and ran into a strange problem with couple of Setup Projects, when I build the Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010 IDE the setup built just fine but once I tried to build it using devenv command it fails.. (To build setup project using Team Build you need to invoke devenv with command line arguments.) The Error from the command line is: ERROR: Unable...
Beta 2 and the Release Candidate Expiration is June 30, 2010 Brian Harry just post about the expiration date for both Beta 2 and the Release Candidate is June 30, 2010. So if you're still using Beta 2 or RC version of TFS 2010 hurry up and start planning Upgrade to TFS 2010 RTM.
TFS Check-in Validation Tool There is a new version available in CodePlex Project Description The TFS Check-in Validation Tool extends TFS Team Build 2008 by enabling buddy build queuing (pre-checkin), validating checkins using shelvesets, and build agent pooling, all from the VS 2008 IDE. Buddy Build Process Flow
Everything you ever wanted to know about locks in TFS phkelley's just published a great post on Everything you ever wanted to know about locks . All you need to know about TFS locks and cool stuff using tf command-line . Enjoy.
How To: Hide Source Control Folder From Specific Group Note : To perform the following steps you need TFS project admin permission 1. Create a project-level group -- group. Its name is ReadOnlyGroup 2. Add the users to the group. 3. Set the permission on the source control folder for the ReadOnlyUsers. a. Right click the sub-folder in team project at Source Control Explorer select 'Properties' menu. b. Select 'Security' tab. Revise the ReadOnlyUsers group's permission on the sub...
Failed To Create Maintenance Plan For TFS Backup After installing TFS 2008 I want to create maintenance plan using SSMS to create a Backup plan How To: Backing Up a Team Foundation Server database . When creating new maintenance plan I got an error. Then I saw that SQL Databases is upgraded to SP2 but not the Client Tools. So Download SQL Server SP2 and make sure to select the right components. After installing SP2 for the Client Tool I was able to create the maintenance plan for backup TFS Databases...
Working With TFS Data Manager In the post I talked about Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008 and now I will show how to work with TFS Data Manager. Every one can download the trial version and check for your self Download Page After downloading (9.5mb) the install is very simple. Choose the backup location, make sure you have al least 800mb , basiclly it’s like SQL backup. Select your Team System database and proper User & Password After the installation you can open TFS Data Manager, Perform Backup...
Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008 Team System has become the kernel for many companies, We all know that we can Backing Up a Team Foundation Server database using simple maintance plan in the database, but is it enough? What is TFS Data Manager? At its core, TFS Data Manager provides Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008, specifically Team Foundation Server. This includes backing up and restoring an entire TFS server, individual Team Projects, or Entities, such as Work Items, Reports, Source Code, Builds...
Source Control Permissions using tf command-line There are some permissions that available in source control that not available in the UI. Here is the Full List *** Available only through command-line and require high permissions *** Permission Name Name at Command Line Description Read tf: Read Users who have this permission can read the contents of a file or folder. If a user has Read permissions for a folder, the user can see the contents of the folder and the properties of the files in it, even...
Check-in Policy Tips and Tricks Tip 1: How to Replace/Marge Project Code Analysis Settings with Team Project Check-in Policy Code Analysis Settings. You made a Code Analysis settings for you project. You Team made a Check-in Policy include Code Analysis (With different settings) Now you want to get the Code Analysis settings from the Team project into your project . Right click on the solution and go over "Code Analysis Settings for Solution" and click "Replace with Check-in Policy"...
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